Senior Data Governance & Strategy Lead

Employment; Doha; On-site; QAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Employment is seeking a Lead Data Governance professional to drive enterprise governance across data access, quality and analytics. The role focuses on defining strategy, maturity, and roadmaps, while coordinating with data stewards and business leaders.

The candidate will shape AI governance, data lineage, and data quality programs, ensuring compliance with upstream and downstream DIM requirements and robust information security practices. Fluent English is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Management or related field.
• 10+ years in Data Management for Oil and Gas operations.
• 5+ years in a management/lead role delivering engineering information projects.
• Experience building data governance strategy, roadmaps, and onboarding data roles.
• Experience implementing data governance tech stacks (glossary, lineage, quality).
• Knowledge of data solutions for visualization, BI, data warehouses/MDM/modeling.
• Experience in Change, Program, and Stakeholder management.
• Understanding of Upstream/Downstream DIM requirements.
• Knowledge of databases, EDMS, BI technologies.
• Knowledge of Applications Architecture and Information Security.
• Fluent English in speaking and writing.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data governance framework, strategy, and maturity.
• Promote data access, quality, and analytics; develop training and data roles models.
• Measure governance maturity and plan yearly improvement goals.
• Represent DM at leadership meetings and present data value.
• Provide guidance to ensure successful DM solutions with IT and business.
• Scope AI/advanced analytics and digital use cases; evaluate vendor proposals.
• Define data quality rules and data lineage for digital use cases.
• Establish AI governance framework and data quality controls.
• Ensure onboarding of data stewards on governance tools.
• Maintain master data management scope and data quality checks.
• Ensure data certification standards for data loads and migrations.
• Develop data management policies and metadata standards.
• Monitor adherence to data policies and governance guidelines.
• Upskill developers on data governance and management.

Skills

Data governance

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Data quality

Data lineage

Data modeling

EDMS

BI tools

AI governance

Change mgmt

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Management or related field

Job description

Employment is seeking a Lead Data Governance professional to drive enterprise governance across data access, quality and analytics. The role focuses on defining strategy, maturity, and roadmaps, while coordinating with data stewards and business leaders.

The candidate will shape AI governance, data lineage, and data quality programs, ensuring compliance with upstream and downstream DIM requirements and robust information security practices. Fluent English is required.